Tag Archives: enlightenment

Previously, I have transcribed some of my favorite tracks of The Science of Enlightenment series by my teacher Shinzen Young. Those tracks were about the “esoteric” side of Buddhist practice. In this post I’ve transcribed Shinzen’s uber-geeky vision of a future when science and meditation will date and mate and give birth to a new […]

In the beginning of this year, 2009, I’ve made a connection to a geeky dharma teacher. Since then I’ve made significant progress in my meditation practice and still going strong. In fact, as a result, I’ve made meditation as an integral part of my lifestyle. I owe a lot of this to my main dharma […]

Anyone who has taken a serious study and practice of meditation inevitably encounters a lot of paradoxes along the way, especially when it comes to the concept of enlightenment. Different schools of spirituality put different emphasis on how to view enlightenment. Some schools (e.g. nondual traditions, like Mahayana, Advaita Vedanta, Dzogchen) view enlightenment as an […]

Har-Prakash Khalsa, an online buddy and a fellow student of Shinzen Young, finally decided to blog his heart out. Nice! Welcome to the blogosphere, bro. *Fist bump* 🙂 His very first blog post is his awesome interview with Shinzen on the subject of enlightenment. Here’s an excerpt. Har-Prakash Khalsa – Given that, in your own […]

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. Don’t worry, I’m still alive, kicking and (hyper)streaming 🙂 Actually, I shifted my attention to micro-blogging via Twitter, Friendfeed, and Facebook (see (hyper)stream section). Also, I didn’t have a topic to write about these past few weeks that deserve a post here on my blog. In […]